DNR: Now is the time to take hunter education

2:00 PM,
Jan. 15, 2014

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the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

People who will need a hunter safety certificate to hunt this year should not wait until fall to get enrolled in Hunter Education if they want to in the woods hunting this fall, according to state hunting safety officials.

"There are more hunter education courses taught now than any other time of year," said Jon King, hunter education administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 1973, must have completed a hunter education course and show the certificate to purchase any hunting license in Wisconsin. ...